The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-09-16

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upon the arm of Aunt Lavinias chair,
/ put my arm about her neck, saying:
$50 it was of no use, amty! Thank
you ever so much for trying, though"
mo. it was of no use" says Aunt
Lavinia. Nancy may mean we'll but
she is terribly set in her ways, and it
seems as if she couldn't give mp.
She's always sure she can do every
thing for every body better than they
| could do it for themselves, but do
think she might let me do my own re-
senting for my own quarrels.
''ResentingP Pshaw. says Aunt
Nancy, returning as suddenly as she
had left. IF resentment were a fort
uRe, poor enough you'd be all your
life. Aud as for you, Rose Darragh,
if l were a pretty girl like you I'd
/ pluck up n spirit and not go peaking
and pining for a lover I can't have. "
'Tm not 'peaking and pining. ]
cry, Indignantly. "And as for
Ralph" But Aunt Nancy cuts me
short in a way she has.
'It's high time that parlor was fin
ished, Lavinia." she says. 'iNow that
Rose has come back a full-fedged
young lady she'll be wanting a place
to see her beaux in. Here we've been
living in this cottage for ten wears,
and it's a shame and a disgrace that
the best room should still be uniinish-
ed. I'm going to send for Veneer to-
day and have the thing done without
any more shilly-shallying. "
Then you have made up your mind
at lastP" asks Aunt Lavinia.
made mp my mindr' cries Aunt
Nancy. lifting her eyebrows in fine
surprise. ''Why. you know very we'll
that it was made up years ago. 1t was
only yOur wretched obstinacy that has
kept the room in the state it is all
these years. Green rep is the proper
thing. of course, and if had not been
n fool it would have been done years
ago"
Aunt Lavinia's delicate lips set
themselves i'm lirmer curves rs she says:
1--WE have talked this thing over hun
dred times. Nancy, and You know per-
fectly well that nothing will induce me
to set my foot in a green room. 1t is
the most unlucky of colors, and why
you will be so obstinate about it
can't see.
! "ObstinateF' cries A unit Nancy, in
amazement. 'Its all very we'll for
you TO talk about obstinacy. You
know quite well that / can't abide
blue never could wear it. even when
/ was a girl. As for sitting all day
against blue background. and will
fully making myself uglier than the
Lord ever meant me to be, it's what
can't and went do for any body.
There's a good, plain, practical reason
for you, while you have nothing hut
your miserable superstition to set
against it.
I'm no more superstitiOus than you
are, " cried Aunt Lavinia, hotly.
"And if it comes to that, all the Car
rolls are superstitious. and with good
reason, too. What Carroll ever wore
green without having bad luck?
Wasn't our great-great- grandfather
shot in a green coat? And didn't our
grandfather come to his death through
a srfeit of green turtle soup? And
wasn't our second cousin buried at
Green Village, where he had no bust
ness to be when he died? No, Tn
neither obstinate nor superstitions,
but do say that nothing will ever in
duce me to put my foot inside of a
green ROOM"
''Then the room is likely TO 90 I'M
furnished for ten years longer" says
Aunt Nancy, calmly, ''for what I've
said I've said. and you can't expect
me to go back of it. Lavinia Carroll
Thank the Lord, ] know my own
mind. but l won't be rs stubborn as
you are for any thing You could men,
ton. ~
That Aunt Nancy and Aunt Lavinia
are rs fond of each other ut bottom as
it is possible for sisters to be. / have
long been convinced, but certainly lit.
tie enough of their affection upon the
surface. In appearance they are
totally unlike Aunt Lavinia must
have been very pretty when she was
Young l think Even now her eyes
are blue and soft. and her skin fine
and fair. with faint rose-tint on the
wrinkled cheeks. Aunt Nancy j,
stout and swarthy, with snappy black
eyes and quick, decid ed ways. And
/ each of them is, in her own way, as
she will proudly inform yOu, ~ Car
roll to the backbone. Surely such :
race rs the CAROLS never existed be-
fore and can never exist again, l Otter
think, as l hear the wonderful quail
tiles ascribed to the wonderful mem
bers of that family.
That Aunt Lavinia has had a story
in her day / have often surmised, bu
1 never could be quite sure of it until
returned from my visit to Minna r ow.
land. OF course Ralph Hereford
8 name could not help occurring Otter
in my accounts of my visit Though
il was little hard for me to speak it
7 l was by no means prepared for the
sensation which it caused. Aun
Lavinia dropped her work with E;
sudden gasp. while Aunt N ancy
elutched her needles more firmly and
olared Mt me in silence. As for me.
looked from one to the other in mute
> dismay. Then, shortly and curtly
Aunt Nancy told me the old story
that thirty years ago Ralph's father
had been engaged TO Aunt Lavinll,
but had broken the engagement fol
the sake of a fairer face. She babe me
never mention Ralph again; but Of
| course that is nonsense. Ralph and
may not meet for the present. bu
, there is a long future before us.
= Aunt Lavinia is of a softer fiber than
her sister. Aunt Nancy having one,
: loved man would either love or hate
him forever. All are not alike, fortu-
nately. and TO Aunt Lavinia the thing
that happened so long ago are vagu,
9 and dim as dream. She may hav,
r loved and suffered truly and deeply il
5 the INST. but TODAY. / think. il seem